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MISCELLANE 0 US. 
With the January number of the Index we distributed a circular offering plants 
for sale of Nymphcea Flava, from Florida, and crediting Mrs. 1*. T. W. Campbell with 
having re-discovered this rare plant, while we should have given Mrs. Mary Treat 
the honor of the discovery, and Mrs. Campbell the credit of the illustrations. W'e 
take pleasure in correcting the mistake, for no one prizes the valuable contributions 
from the pen of Mrs. Treat more than we do, and under no circumstances would we 
wish to detract a particle from her well earned laurels. 
Mrs. J. M. Chase, of Kenosha, Wisconsin, has a plant of Agave Americana, (Amer- 
ican Aloe, or Century Plant,) that is now throwing up a flower-stem, that promises 
to be the attraction of botanical interest in that section of the country for the summer 
of 1878. The plant is about twenty-five years old, and measures, from the extreme 
end of the central stalk to the top of the tub in which it grows, nine feet and three 
inches ; it is six feet around the body, and has thirty-five enormous leaves, from eight 
to ten inches wide, from four to five inches thick at their attachment to the plant, 
and from seven to eight feet long. 
RECEN T PUBLICA TIONS. 
[We shall be pleased to receive from authors and publishers, copies of botanical books, papers, and prospectuses, 
for a notice in this column.] 
Another quarter has passed, and with it new and choice additions have been made 
to our stock of horticultural and botanical reading. All the old established periodi- 
cals come to us well stored with information for spring work— the Gardeners' Monthly 
and American Agriculturist of course heading the list. 
Among other valuable contributions to the fund of horticultural reading, we must 
not forget Vick's Monthly Magazine; The American Garden, (Beach, Son & Co.. New 
York, quarterly) ; The Ladies' Floral Cabinet, (monthly, H. T. Williams, New York), 
and a host of papers too numerous to mention, but all of great interest and ability. 
In the scientific botanical department, we have The Botanical Gazette, in a new 
dress and increased pages, full, as usual, of information for the student, (monthly. 
M. S. & J. M. Coulter, Hanover and Logansport, Tnd., $1.00); also, The Bulletin of 
the Tarry Botanical Club, (New York, $i.00, monthly,) recording the investigations 
of some of our brightest scholars. 
Floral California, No. 1, Yol. 1, comes to us well filled with choice reading from 
that land of plant and mineral wealth — California — and we speak for it a future pros- 
perity worthy its choice name. The future numbers will be well illustrated, and 
when the proposed plans are carried into execution, it must be an almost indispens- 
able magazine in the study of California botany. (Quarterly, 50cts., Petaluma, Cal.) 
Parts II and III of Ferns of North America, have been distributed, and still main- 
tain their reputation of superb. They are not only a valuable literary and scientific 
addition, but a choice book for the table. (Salem, Mass., $1.00 each.) Communicate 
with the publisher. 
Ferns of Kentucky, by John Williamson, of Louisville, Ky. (Ready May 1st.) We 
have before us specimens of the illustrations (etchings) of which there will be forty, 
and must say they are very fine and true to nature. The work promises to be of great 
value and interest to the student of Cryptogamia, as well as to the plant fancier. Cloth 
binding, $2.00. Communicate directly with the author. 
The Flora of the United States, No. 1, (Thomas Meehan, Philadelphia. Pa.,) will 
appear about June 1st, in the form of an illustrated popular history of the charac- 
teristic North American plants. All the species peculiar to the different geographical 
botanical centers in the United States will be described and illustrated in the suc- 
ceeding numbers. Mr. M. would be pleased to receive seed or roots of characteristic 
plants from the different sections of the country. Correspondence solicited. 
The Earlhamite, (monthly. Richmond, Ind., $1.00,) devoted to the interests of the 
Ionian (literary) Society of Earlham College, Richmond, always contains carefully 
prepared papers from the pens of some of our most thoughtful writers, and is well 
worth the subscription price, even if it does not contain any botany. 
BOOKS WANTED. 
Any person having a copy of any one of the following books to spare, will confer 
a favor by notifying us of the fact immediate^', stating price and condition of the 
book : 
Gray’s Genera. 
Plantai Thurberi. 
Plantce Wrighti. 
Wislizenus Beport New Mex. Survey. 
